Activity November

In November, Eye Charity Vietnam is going to arrange an eye surgery program in Ha Tien district, Kien Giang province. With the support from some sponsors who originated from Kien Giang province, as well as the kindly help from Ho Chi Minh Eye Hospital, currently we are doing necessary documentation to register the program to local authority.

We hope our program will happen soon to help poor patients in Ha Tien district gaining back their vision and happy life. Interested sponsors please contact us to support this program.

Update October Program

Eye Charity Vietnam announces eye surgical program on October. In September, we have actively sought for poor patients in Daknong province for the program. However, the province has also received many similar charity program from other teams, making the number of untreated patients fewer than expected. Although not yet completed the planned program, we are very happy to see that there are a lot of concern and support to poor people.

In the mean time of waiting to get the list of more than 100 patients to organise a surgery event, Eye Charity Vietnam will continue to implement our charity program in form of sponsoring trips to Hochiminh Eye Hospital for poor patients that need surgery. Our team will sponsor travelling and treating cost, Eye Hospital will sponsor facility and accommodation for patients and their escorting family members.

We hope that our new activity will efficiently help poor patients to gain back their vision and health.

Financial report July & August

We would like to report financial status as follow: 

Cost for travelling and accommodation of Charity team and gifts for patients on 19 July was not charged to the charity fund. 

Next in September, we will organise the second program, expecting to have 200 patients get free eye surgery, however, until now, the balance of our fund is only 100 million Vietnam dong. We are looking forward to the help and support from all of the sponsors in order to make it happens. 

Sincerely thank you. 

Thank you

Eye Charity Vietnam sincerely thanks T4 Spa Concepts Designs in Houston, USA for the donation of 2000 USD. We have received the amount in Hochiminh Eye Hospital's account.

On behalf of all patients, we thank you and thank Mr. Jimmy Hung, who has connected to help this program.

Update: Some photos of patients who have been cured in the first event

Today, information from Church of Tan Hoa Dong, Daklak has updated us with some photos of the patients in first event, now getting well. 

Mr Huynh Thai Thanh, diagnosed cataract on both eyes, 
left eye treated. 

Mrs Nguyen Thi Nhung, diagnosed cataract on left eye,
left eye treated. 

Mrs Phan Thi Trang, diagnosed cataract on right eye, 
right eye treated 

We sincerely thank the donors for helping them finding back their eyesight and a new life. 

Call for Second event in September 2014

In September 2014, Eye Charity Vietnam will cooperate with Ho Chi Minh city Eye Hospital and Daknong province Multi-discipline Hospital to organise the second charity eye surgery event. It is estimated to have 200 patients this time (including those in Daklak that have both eyes affected and haved been cured one eye in first event) 

Currently we are calling for donations to finance for this event to be implemented as planned. 

First free surgical event at Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital

Eye Charity Vietnam organized a free chataract surgery event in coorperative with Ho Chi Minh city Eye Hospital and Tay Nguyen Eyg Hospital for poor people in Buon Ho ward, Daklak Province. Patients are ethnic minorities, Catholics, Christian and poor people who live in remote areas, mainly in Buon Ho ward.  

Those patients were recommended by Catholic and Christian churches and local healthcare system, and proved that help needed. Patients were screened at Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital to ensure proper prescription of cataract surgery and preoperative guidance.

On 19 July 2014, Eye Charity Vietnam and representative of Ho Chi Minh Eye Hospital came to Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital early and had a friendly meeting with the doctors, nurses and patients before start. 

Patients rested in Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital's patient rooms to wait for operations and check afterward.  

Tay Nguyen Eye Hospital is a specialty hospital with most contemporary equipments in Tay Nguyen area and has many highly skilled doctors.  

Nurses took care of patients after surgery and provided them medicines and post surgery guidance.  

 Representative of Eye Charity Vietnam gave a small gift including Mosquito repel nest and eye protecting glasses to the patients. 

After the event, patients came back home in the same day, all operation have been done successfully and brought eyesight back to 96 people. 

We grateful thank all donors, doctors, nurses and volunteers, who helped us organised this event successfully. We also thank Ms Thien Nga of Tien Phong newspaper and Doctor Duong Dinh Hung for their connection to help us organize the event in Tay Nguyen area.  

Link on press about this program (Vietnamese only): 
Tây Nguyên thay thuỷ tinh thể miễn phí cho 100 bệnh nhân

Tin vắn: Thay thuỷ tinh thể miễn phí

List of patients first event: